The NCAA’s Commission on College Basketball’s recommendations have been pretty worthless so far, but there’s a new proposal under consideration that would fix at least some of the problems in the sport. According to Jeff Goodman, the proposal would allow undrafted underclassmen to return to college and set up developmental camps to identify which high schoolers should be allowed to have an agent before their senior year of high school.

Let’s start with allowing undrafted underclassmen to return to school; that’s a no brainer. Here’s the proposed path:

Here’s the actual proposal from NBA Topical working group to Commission regarding one model for early entrants being able to return to school AFTER the draft. pic.twitter.com/2W6E8z1OTZ

As for the developmental camps…well, that’s a little trickier. The proposal would overhaul the July recruiting period, creating regional NCAA-sponsored youth development camps which will be developed and organized in collaboration with USA Basketball, the NBA, and the NBA Players Association.

Here’s the info on the proposal for July recruiting model from the working group. Two regional camp sessions at 4 locations. 2,400 kids. 1,200 seniors, 900 juniors, 300 sophomores. pic.twitter.com/RuS0mQI4Zq

From there, USA Basketball would identify the “elite senior prospects” and allow them to have an agent — presumably to decide whether or not to go pro straight from high school — while the rest of the prospects would have to wait until after their freshman year of college. On the surface that may sound like a good idea, but having a third party determine who’s “elite” enough to work with agents just opens the door for corruption. In April, John Calipari advocated for the NBA Players Association to host a combine for high school juniors to evaluate talent; I’d be curious to hear what he thinks of this proposal.

The obvious problem with this is that most of these guys will have already been made ineligible anyway, because agents start showering them with $$/gifts , basically as soon as the tournament ends. By the time they’ve gone through the process to the point of the actual draft, there’s pretty much a 0% chance any of them hasn’t committed a violation, according to the NCAA.

Wenyen would not have been able to return under these proposed rules. I don’t see the reason for including a requirement that the athlete had to have been invited to the combine. What does THAT accomplish?